From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <17977.9796.15991.630737@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 10:01:08 +1000 From: Paul Mackerras To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: [PATCH] powermac: support G5 CPU hotplug In-Reply-To: <1178143429.17299.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <17969.56735.644629.328360@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <1178086872.13233.27.camel@johannes.berg> <17976.28170.695715.416339@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <1178116438.13233.65.camel@johannes.berg> <1178143429.17299.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Johannes Berg List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: > On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 16:33 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 20:55 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > > > > Ultimately we want to put the disabled cpus in sleep mode, but that > > > will require a suitable cache flush routine. > > > > I don't have any docs for the particular processors the G5s have, do > > they have a sleep mode? > > They have, but the cache flush is not trivial to do (and might imply > access to non documented bits). So let's put that on the to-do list and > stick to NAP for now while I dig something. Hmmm, I went looking in the 970FX manual for sleep mode and didn't find it, only nap and doze... Paul.